New signing David Button made his debut in goal, while Shane Duffy also featured for the first time in pre-season after groin surgery but he went off after just 22 minutes and striker Jurgen Locadia limped off just before the hour.

Bruno, Lewis Dunk, Bernardo, Davy Propper, Markus Suttner and Tomer Hemed were not in the squad as they were among those who played in the 3-0 hour-long friendly win against Crawley yesterday.

Albion went close to opening the scoring on nine minutes as Jurden as Locadia raced on to Dale Stephens' pass but his shot was pushed behind for a corner by keeper Tom King.

Just a minute later, the hosts threatened as Appiah skipped clear past Duffy but saw his goalbound shot blocked by Ben Barclay, when a square pass to team-mate Pigott might have been the better option.

Locadia immediately signalled to the Albion bench after going down under a challenge with Will Nightingale on 58 minutes and went straight into the changing room as youngster Aaron Connolly replaced him.

Brighton got a goal back seven minutes later as Connolly went down under a Nightingale challenge and Oliver Norwood sent King the wrong way from the resulting penalty.

King pushed away Richie Towell's fierce strike on 68 minutes, before Wimbledon's Anthony Wordsworth sent a low drive just wide on 72 minutes.

Albion - with a young side on the field after a host of substitutions - pressed for an equaliser as Connolly inparticular looked lively but Wimbledon held on to win.

Brighton had drawn their opening friendly 1-1 away to Swiss side St Gallen last week, while this was Wimbledon's fourth pre-season friendly. Their latest outing was a late 1-0 defeat to Queens Park Rangers, after victories over Reading (4-2) and Woking (3-1).